< 1 minute read 42 year-old ginger snoreathon, Shaun Pollock, has been dropped from the South African Test team for the first time. Rumours that South African coach, Mickey Arthur, said, ‘I can’t watch one more delivery from that freckled automaton,’ are probably true, although we haven’t heard it anywhere. Pollock’s place is supposed
Continue readingMonth: September 2007
A match report from Greece
3 minute read Miriam et al. report from Greece where they witnessed the television coverage of England’s not-at-all fictional win over New Zealand first-hand. If you are thinking of sending a match report, consider this confirmation that not only does the report not have to be timely, it also doesn’t particularly matter if
Continue readingInternational Cricket Captain 3 review
2 minute read Rubbish. Okay, that’s a bit extreme. How about ‘worse than its predecessor’? The graphics are better, but still bad. The whole point of this update is the presentation (nothing else has changed) so it’s hard to ignore. Before, they hadn’t made any effort, so you overlooked the rough appearance. It’s
Continue readingKent v Durham in the County Championship – the last three days IN FULL
< 1 minute read Lemon Bella reports: I went to watch the last three days of the Kent v Durham County Championship match. However, because Kent appeared to have somewhere more important to be, I only ended up seeing seven hours of play. I put my spare time to good use by purchasing a
Continue readingIndia win Twenty20 World Cup
< 1 minute read How can a mere 40 overs of cricket contain so many twists and turns? The last three or four overs in particular were dramatic dynamite. Commentators would say ‘Pakistan are almost certain to win now,’ one ball, yet find themsleves saying it was ‘India’s game to lose,’ the next. It
Continue readingTwenty20 World Cup final, India v Pakistan
< 1 minute read If the proper World Cup was pretty rubbish with lots of things going wrong, the Twenty20 World Cup has pretty much addressed each of these issues. There’ve been crowds, excitement, few dead matches and they’ve even managed to get the final that all cricket tournaments want – India v Pakistan.
Continue readingYuvraj Singh: How much better could he be?
< 1 minute read The answer, of course, is none. None better. India were doing precisely nothing when he came to the crease in the Twenty20 World Cup semi-final against Australia. They were 41-2 after eight overs. ‘It’s too hard’ they seemed to be saying. ‘We can’t lay bat on ball’. ‘What?’ said Yuvraj
Continue readingSussex win the County Championship
< 1 minute read Sussex success. Lancashire disappointment. The County Championship ends in displeasingly familiar fashion. We’re not really that bothered though. Sussex are a great side. There’s Robin Martin-Jenkins, the handiest county player imaginable. A man who’s never going to get picked for England yet merrily scores fifties and chips in with wickets
Continue readingMark Ramprakash’s Bradmania
< 1 minute read This is Grimlock. He’s a dinosaur who is also a robot. It literally doesn’t get any better than that. At the end of last season, we hypothesised that Mark Ramprakash had been spurred into overachievement by a promise from his father. We thought that maybe Mark’s dad had said he
Continue readingDhanuka Pathirana sets the standard
< 1 minute read We’re in the middle of the Twenty20 World Cup and what is considered acceptable batting behaviour is changing by the day. Yuvraj Singh’s 12 ball fifty the other day is only three balls shy of the perfect half-century – the minimum number of balls required to pass the landmark. However,
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